The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-11
ROYAL GUESTS.
Massachusetts Receives Them with
Open Heart and Hand.
Mammoth Receptions I'm BOstOn-Vis1l
to wellesley College and Public
InstItutIOns-The Mayors
Grand Breakfast.

InstitutIOns-TheM Mayors
Grand Breakfast.
The following interesting and detailed
account of the visit of the Royal party
to Boston is from the pen of Mr.. Law
renee Bond, His Majesty's Consul at
| Boston. 1t will be found worthy OF
perusal, especially so as showing the
marked hospitality and cordial greeting
extended to their Royal guests by the
generous people of Massachusetts,.
When the intelligence reached Boston
that the Royal party were intending to
proceed to England via the United States,
the City Council with the utmost prompt
ness and unanimity passed an order re-
| questing His Honor the Mayor to extend
! the Inequalities of the city to the Royal
visitors. Accordingly, on the arrival of
the party in San Francisco, the Mayor
! telegraphed an invitation to Her Majesty
to visit Boston, and it was accepted. He
| then appointed committee to assist him
| in making and carrying out arrangements
| for the entertainment of the city's guests.
| The committee sent delegation from their
number, accompanied by Mr.. Gorham D.
Gilman of this city as an interpreter, to
| Washington, to confer with Her Majesty
and Her Royal Highness as to when they
would visit Boston and what entertain
ment would be most acceptable to them
while here.
THE ROYAL PARTY ARRIVED
here by train on the morning of
Sunday May Sth. His Majestys Consul
| and representatives of His Honor the
Mayor of Boston met and boarded the
train at suburban station, and on arrival
at the city, at about o'clock, escorted the
party to the Parker House where His
Honor the Mayor had secured for the
party ample and sumptuously decorated
apartments. After breakfast Her ROYAL
Highness, with Mr.. and Mrs. Gilman, at
tended divine worship at Park-street
Church, while Her Majesty remained in
her apartments to rest from the fatigue of
the journey. At II o'clock noon His
Honor the Mayor, Hugh O'Brien and Mrs.
O'Brien called to pay their respects to Her
Majesty and Her Royal Highness, and
soon afterward Major General Dalton,
Chief of Staff of His Excellency Oliver
Ames, Governor of Massachusetts, came
bearing letter, of which the following is a
copy:
COMMONWEALTH MANSION,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
May 7, 1887
To Her Majesty Queen Kapiolani:
Madame-It gives me great pleasure to
tender you, by the bearers of this note
who are members of my military staff,
coIdial welcome to this commonwealth of
Massachusetts,, of which I am the Chief
Executive. l hope to be able to make your
visit to the State both pleasant and profit
able, and beg that you will command my
services in any way that may seem to you
likely to tend to bring about this result.
l have the honor to be yours, with high
regard, OLIVER AMEs, Governor.
In the afternoon Her Majesty and Her
Royal H1ghness, attended by Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilman and His Majesty's Consul, at
tended divine service at Trinity Church;
and in the evening Her Royal Highness,
with other members of the party, listened
to an Oratorio at the Boston Music Hall.
On Monday morning the Royal party
drove about the business portion of the
city and visited the Old South Meeting
House and other points of interest. Atnoon
in the large private dining-room of the
Parker House, the Mayor gave an elaborate
breakfast ia honor of the city's guests,
which was attended by hundred of BOs-
toms most distinguished gentlemen and
ladies, including representatives of the
United States Government, the Governor
and several ex-Governors of the common
wealth, the Reverend Bishop Paddock and
Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes.
THE RICHNESS AND BEAUTY
of the floral and other decorations sur
passed anything of the kind ever seen in
Boston.
After the breakfast, which closed with
an address of welcome by the host, to
which His Excellency Governor Iaukea
made an eloquent reply, the royal ladies
held reception, and later in the afternoon
made an informal call upon Mrs. Governor
Ames. The evening was spent by the
party at the Globe Theater.
Her Majesty on Tuesday morning Wis
tied Park-street Church, which has many
associations of interest for all Hawaiians,
and was the church attended by His Maj
esty on the occasion of his visit to Boston.
In the afternoon the Royal party visited
the State House, and were welcomed by
His Excellency the Governor and his pre-
siding officers of both branches of the
Legislature, which were then in session;
and afterwards proceeded to Charleston to
the residence of James F. Hunnewell,
Esq, the President of the Hawaiian Club
of Boston, where a reception was rendered |
them, at which there were presented to
Her Majesty and Her Royal Highness
many prominent residents of Boston and |
it's vicinity who have lived at the Hawa-
ian Islands in the past. Her Majesty re-
manned in her apartments during the |
evening, while Her Royal Highness and |
others of the party occupied boxes first
at the Boston Theater and afterwards at !,
the Hollis-street Theater.
RECEPTION AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE.
On Wednesday after breakfast, which